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Wikipedia states that Grandmaster Nicholas Rossolimo wrote a book
entitled "Rossolimo's Brilliancy Prizes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rossolimo
Does anybody know of such a book? I cannot find it on Amazon or the
usual places.
I often visited Rossolimo's Chess Studio on Thompson Street in
Greenwich Village of New York City in the 1970s. At that time he was

By winning his first two games, Sam Sloan is now in first place in the
World Championship of Chinese Chess, now being played at Hotel
Borobudur in Jakarta, Indonesia.
In the first round, Sloan defeated Dmitry RUMYANTSEV of Russia.
In the second round Sloan defeated Chein Kyi of Myanmar (Borma)
A total of 78 invited players from 24 countries are contesting the
World Championship.

After two rounds of play, there are 13 players tied for the lead with
scored of 2-0.
68 players from 24 member national federations are contesting the
World Championship plus 10 woman players.
Each member national federation is entitled to send two players, plus
one non-Chinese player plus women player.
The 13 players tied for first a

The first major upset has occurred in the World Championship of
Chinese chess. The Viewnamese player NGUYEN Thanh Bao lost to Îâ×Úº² WOO
Tsung Han of Singapore.
This is a big upset because the Vietnamese are considered almost the
equals of the Chinese in Chinese chess. Vietnam and China are in
general far stronger than the other countries.
In this event, China is represented by ÐíÒø´¨ XU...

Louis-Philippe: Le méconnu
by
André Castelot
Introduction by Sam Sloan
The title of this book translates into English as “Louis-Philippe: The
Ignored”.
This is a suitable and appropriate title, because King Louis-Philippe
I, King of the French, who ruled from from 1830 to 1848, has indeed
been ignored by history. Hardly anybody seems even to know that there

Hitler's Strategy
by
Sir Francis Harry Hinsley
Introduction by Sam Sloan
Sir Francis Harry Hinsley (although he was not a “Sir” at the time he
wrote this book. He got that title when he was knighted in 1985.) was

On Oct 17, 2:42*pm, micky wrote:
Currently, the New York Public Library consists of 87 libraries: four
non-lending research libraries, four main lending libraries, a library
for the blind and physically challenged, and 77 neighborhood branch
libraries in the three boroughs served. All libraries in the NYPL system
may be used free of charge by all visitors....

I have had a translation made of the four page introduction to the
book "Der Triumph des Willens". I am not fluent in German but I know a
few words and I am not entirely satisfied with this translation.
If anybody can make corrections, they would be appreciated:
Introduction to "The Triumph of Will”
The man who today is the German Chancellor is the leader of sixty
million people. He is neither...

On Oct 12, 4:29*pm, Alex wrote:
What college did Bobby Fischer go to?
He was a world chess champion so he must be a smart person and I want
to be a smart person so I think that I should go to his college and I
can be smart as him.
The answer to your loaded question, which I'm sure you know, is that
he dropped out at age fifteen from Erasmus High in Brookluyn, where...

On Oct 12, 4:29*pm, Alex wrote:
What college did Bobby Fischer go to?
He was a world chess champion so he must be a smart person and I want
to be a smart person so I think that I should go to his college and I
can be smart as him.
I see you did ask WHICH in the subject header, so my bad.

On Oct 16, 10:49*pm, raylopez99 wrote:
On Oct 16, 3:38*am, samsloan wrote:
Why are farm girls thought of as being more sexually liberal or more
readily available than other kinds of girls?
That does not apply to Pakistani farm girls, who are renowned for
their conservatism, but it does apply to Thai farm girls.
Because they grow...

On Oct 16, 10:18*pm, raylopez99 wrote:
On Oct 17, 12:22*am, samsloan wrote:
Jay Whitehead was constantly being kicked out or expelled from various
Hare Krishna groups and during the period 1997-2000 he kept coming
back to one of my places in Brooklyn looking for a free place to stay.
He always offered to give me chess lessons or...